In a rather unexpected turn of events, AMD has given in to the demands of enthusiasts and fans and announced that it won’t drop Ryzen 4000 “Zen 3” support from the older B450 and X470 motherboards. But yes, there is a catch. Zen 3 support will be enabled via an “optional BIOS update” and it will be a one-way BIOS upgrade path, meaning that you won’t be able to flash back to the older BIOS.

Publication: Hardware Times 

This started out in life with a price tag around Rs 50,000 and that means you get specifications which are quite powerful. This runs the AMD Ryzen 5 3500U quad-core processor (for some reason, many potential laptop buyers still have a bit of mistrust towards AMD machines). This has 4GB of RAM to get Windows 10 and your apps purring along. What should also make a difference is the 512GB SSD, which will speed up performance.

Publication: News18

AMD kicked off 2020 with the launch of the Radeon RX 5600 XT, delivering the ultimate in high-performance, high-fidelity 1080p gameplay. As a follow-on, AMD is pleased to highlight the availability of the wealth of AMD board partner models of the Radeon RX 5600 XT graphics cards, now providing more performance over the previous 12 Gbps models for a similar price, ready to play for today’s top AAA games and esports titles.

Publication: TechQuila 

In a surprising yet pleasant twist, AMD has extended Ryzen 4000/Zen 3 support to B450 and X470 Motherboards. This comes with a few caveats though which will be outlined below. There was a huge backlash from fans when AMD dropped support for 400 series motherboards. And rightly so, as it would mean a dead end for up-gradability for those who bought them.

Publication: TechQuila

Today, the gaming industry is flourishing with the emergence of a number of gaming consoles and platforms. What started with Gameboy and Nintendo a few decades back has now transformed into PS4, Xbox, etc. Along with this, the rise of a number of handheld consoles has also revolutionized how gamers perceive gaming.

Publication: The Times of India 

Thin laptops have always been popular with those who don’t want to lug around bulky machines. Keeping that in mind, Acer refreshed its Swift series laptop with the launch of Acer Swift 5 SF514-54. The laptop is another ultra-thin laptop launched by Acer. It comes powered with 10th Gen Intel core processors and weighs less than 1kg.

Publication: Gadgets Now 

Technology behemoth Google is investing heavily in people and partnerships to grab a larger share of the Indian Cloud market, as it takes on global rivals Microsoft, IBM and Amazon Web Services in the country, a top company executive said. Google will also leverage its advantage as a ‘data company’ and deploy technology as the key differentiator with expertise in areas such as Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, said Karan Bajwa, the newly appointed managing director of Google Cloud in India.

Publication: ET Tech 

China’s Lenovo Group, the world’s biggest PC maker, posted a better than expected quarterly profit on Wednesday and said it could benefit from the “new normal” of working from home. Lenovo reported a 64% drop in net profit for its fourth quarter ended March to $43 million (35 million pounds) due to disruption cause by COVID-19, beating an average $7.49 million estimate of seven analysts, according to Refinitiv data. Revenue dropped 9.7% to $10.6 billion.

Publication: Forbes

Microsoft at its Build 2020 developer’s conference, hosted online, announced a new supercomputer in partnership with OpenAI. This supercomputer will be used to train extremely large artificial intelligence models and is hosted on Azure. “Compared with other machines listed on the TOP500 supercomputers in the world, it ranks in the top five,” claims Microsoft.

Publication: The Times of India 

Sangeeta Gupta, senior vice-president at industry body Nasscom, said no large firm had so far sought a waiver. “Our primary concern is to help SMEs and we are in discussion with government representatives to get relief for these startups and others in tier 2 locations.”

Publication: The Times of India 

Gargi Dasgupta, director of IBM Research India, and CTO of IBM India, says there was anxiety during the month of lockdown, on what’s happening around, how to manage schedules. But by the second month, each one in the family had found their rhythm.(Dell)

Publication: The Times of India 

Technology giant Google is investing heavily in people and partnerships to grab a larger share of the Indian Cloud market, as it takes on global rivals Microsoft, IBM and Amazon Web Services in the country, a top company executive said. Google will also leverage its advantage as a ‘data company’ and deploy technology as the key differentiator with expertise in areas such as Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, said Karan Bajwa, the newly appointed managing director of Google Cloud in India.

Publication: The Economic Times